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Tangent0011 year, 5 months ago
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"Besides that, 9 out of 10 caribou in the ANWAR area herd support drilling"
Why does the Right have such a hard-on for ANWR when the oil companies are sitting on thousands of oil leases they are not bothering to take advantage of?
Drilling in ANWR should be done very carefully and ONLY if we can get assurances that the oil derived therefrom is ONLY made available to the US.
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Dionys1 year, 5 months ago
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"Drilling in ANWR should be done very carefully and ONLY if we can get assurances that the oil derived therefrom is ONLY made available to the US."
Drilling in ANWR should never be done. Even if it 'should,' it certainly shouldn't be done until the oil companies take advantage of the oil leases they've been sitting on and receiving tax-breaks on for decades before even asking to drill in some of our last untouched places.
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lum-chate1 year, 5 months ago
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"Drilling in ANWR should never be done. Even if it 'should,' it certainly shouldn't be done until the oil companies take advantage of the oil leases they've been sitting on and receiving tax-breaks on for decades before even asking to drill in some of our last untouched places."
Did it ever occur to you that the leases they've been sitting on, are not likely to produce OIL.
When oil exploration began in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay 30 years ago, environmentalists claimed it would yield only a "few months' supply" of oil and would wreck the ecosystem. Prudhoe Bay turned out to be the largest deposit of oil ever found in North America. Caribou frolic and play by the pipeline. In 20 years, the caribou population has skyrocketed, from 3,000 to almost 27,100.
Your argument is not sustainable in any rational discussion!
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joey-evans1 year, 5 months ago
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"Did it ever occur to you that the leases they've been sitting on, are not likelt to prouce OIL."
Well, if that's the case, let them give those useless leases up. According to you they are not likely to produce OIL....right? Why would they care to give them up? They are not producing anyway?
I imagine they are not producing because the lease holders are not drilling. That's one way to make sure they don't produce anything....don't work them. Come on, you can't really mean what you write can you?
JOEY EVANS
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Tangent0011 year, 5 months ago
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"Did it ever occur to you that the leases they've been sitting on, are not likely to produce OIL."
Then they would be 'oil leases' would they?
Did it ever occur to you the reason they don't want to drill on existing leases is because they like the prices just fine the way they are? They want something that'll take five-or-so years to reach the market. Big Oil has posted record profits for the past several quarters, what incentive do they have?
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saintetienne1 year, 5 months ago
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"before even asking to drill in some of our last untouched places."
....untouched, unused, unpopulated, unvisited, unseen, uncared about....
Tell me WHY, again, are we not utilizing the resources under the ground in ANWAR? Because it seems to me that - outside of a few caribou that might have to migrate a few miles in one direction or another - drilling there can be nothing but positive. Less dependency on foreign oil.... jobs created in Alaska.... more tax revenue.....
Is there a good reason why we're not drilling there? Libs?.... Enviro-nazis?.... Any of you want to field this one?
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globalwarmer1 year, 5 months ago
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I think its strategic. Lets use up the worlds oil and when its gone, everyone (with oil dependency) will come running to papa for more and then papa can name his price. It doesn't make much sense to produce more oil only to sell it cheaper, at least that is how i would play my hand if I was papa.
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MacR1 year, 5 months ago
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I would say with more oil being discovered everywhere else, that theory does not fly.
You see they are finding oil of the coast of Brazil. Then there are the fields and other minerals in Africa and Mexico not being touched.
No I used to think the way you do on this. And too much oil has been found recently for that theory to hold water.
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globalwarmer1 year, 5 months ago
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Perhaps but what if the thousands of oil leases have more oil than their letting on to, it would still make sense to buy up as much crude from foreign sources if you can still make a profit at it. If hostile foreign governments get rich from it, then all the better for the war machine. Besides Mac, you make it sound like there really isn't an energy shortage...hmmm.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 5 months ago
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Vote republican, because burning more and more fossil fuel and drill drill drill more more more is the mantra of Exon, who's only motive is to make more and more and more money.
Vote republican, don't worry at all about Global Warming, becasue increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has nothing to do with rising global temperatures, we just need to drill more, burn more, more tax cuts for Exon, more cheap gas, more drilling in an endless spiral, because Exon is the only profit that matters, and we need cheap fuel for walmart to sell cheap chinese goods, and the military runs on cheap fuel, and the entire american economy is based on cheap fossil fuel, and that trumps choking the children any day. Vote republican!
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
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I'm as conservative as they come and couldn't give two ripps about that frozen zone of crap. I have a more reliable, less costly solution. In the late 1920's the Germans converted coal to a gas. The coal is ground into a slurry and that slurry is processed like crude oil. There's a little more to the process but it could be on line with in 24-30 months. We're building 9 plants in China and will be on line within that time frame. Current technology, not difficult.
Built by American workers, run by American workers, with the taxable profits staying in America. Has anyone else noted the American theme?
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